Specialty Gardening: I've lost my container garden! Need ideas, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
That is a neat idea, Paul! I am a lazy gardener. Well, not really, but I hate assembling things! I am dangerous with a drill! LOL! I was at HD recently and decided to price some of the items you listed to build your blue container. A bit more expensive here in Florida (which I suspected). It would run about $20 - 25 to build it here. Florida has been hard hit by this recession, so that is out of my budget right now. But ... I have been getting FREE pickle container/buckets from the fast food places. (They just throw them away!) I have my dh drill holes in the bottoms and they are good to go! They are also white, so reflect the intense heat here. I may just fill (recycle) disposable 1 pint water bottles, fill with water and a liquid fertilizer mix, and turn upside down in each container to water my plants. :-)

Here is a photo of some of the containers that I had placed temporarily in a 3-tiered raised bed. But they can be placed strategically behind shrubs, fences, next to a shed or an entrance. And you are right, they can be painted with a spray paint designed specifically for plastic. :-)